...necessary for their family to maintain status, quality of life and stability. Even so it can take its toll for all the people involved depending on the situation. The three effects that distance can cause on a relationship are stress, separation anxiety, and depression. When loved one leaves for a long period of time it can become very stressful for both parties. It is an interruption in their normal routine and will have to adjust to this change for the time being...
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...ANXIETY DISORDERS The term “anxiety” refers to a general state of dread or uneasiness that occurs in response to an imagined danger. Usually, it is characterized by nervousness, inability to relax, and concern about losing control. Physical symptoms include trembling, sweating, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, and feelings of lightheadedness (Rathus, 2007). While everyone feels anxious at some point or another, it can turn into a problem for many people. If a person constantly feels anxious, or their anxiety is out of proportion to the situation provoking it, then they may have an anxiety disorder, which can interfere with their daily lives in terms of emotional comfort and life satisfaction. There are many types of anxiety disorders....
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...academic pressures inflicted upon students cause increased stress and anxiety which can impact mental health. Although everyone has experienced the pressures of stress and anxiety at least once in their lives, many do not understand the difference between them or that there is one at all. While stress is “a response to a threat in a situation”, anxiety is the body’s reaction to that stress (“Anxiety and Disorders at School” & “Stress”). There are many different types of anxiety. The most common anxiety disorders found in teenagers and young adults follow: Generalized Anxiety Disorder is classified by the “persistent, excessive and unrealistic worry about everyday things.” Meanwhile Panic Disorder is the spontaneous panic attacks...
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...What are Anxiety Disorders? A cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom. Anxiety disorders are the most common of emotional disorders and affect more than 25 million Americans. Many forms and symptoms may include: • Overwhelming feelings of panic and fear • Uncontrollable obsessive thoughts • Painful, intrusive memories • Recurring nightmares • Physical symptoms such as feeling sick to your stomach, “butterflies” in your stomach, heart pounding, startling easily, and muscle tension Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness. Untreated anxiety disorders can push people into avoiding situations that trigger or worsen their symptoms. People with anxiety disorders are likely to suffer from depression, and they also may abuse alcohol and other drugs in an effort to gain relief from their symptoms. Job performance, school work, and personal relationships can also suffer. Types of Anxiety Disorders Panic disorder People with this condition have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. Other symptoms of a panic attack include sweating, chest pain, palpitations (irregular heartbeats), and a feeling of choking, which may make the person feel like he or she is having a heart attack or "going crazy." Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) People with OCD are plagued by constant thoughts or fears that cause them to perform certain rituals or...
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...Social Anxiety DisorderPhobia Disorders • Social Anxiety Disorder Social anxiety disorder, involves overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. People with social anxiety disorder have a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and being embarrassed or humiliated by their own actions. Their fear may be so severe that it interferes with work or school, and other ordinary activities. While many people with social anxiety disorder recognize that their fear of being around people may be excessive or unreasonable. • Post traumatic...
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...Introduction Generalized anxiety disorder affects around 6.8 million adults with women being twice more likely to be affected than men (Anxiety and Depression Association of American, 2010 -2016). Generalized anxiety disorder is defined by extreme, excessive anxiety which causes individuals to worry about ordinary life events with no apparent reasons for concern. Additionally, people who suffer from generalized anxiety disorder foresee trouble and always expect a disastrous event to occur which causes them to worry about their health, work, school, family, or money. Meanwhile, the anxiety dominates a person’s thinking which interferes with their daily activities. History, Myths, Past Treatments Presently, anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorders and are considered to be the most treatable illness. In the late eighties, the term "anxiety disorders" did not exist. In fact, most anxiety disorders were recognized as phobias (Anxiety and Depression Association of American, 2010 -2016). Information about anxiety disorders began to surface when researchers found a connection between panic attacks and irregular blood flow in the brain. In addition to their findings, the researchers discovered that anxiety disorders are in fact linked to most common social and health issues. As a result, the researchers found and tested different therapies and medication to treat anxiety disorders. There is a wide variety of myths about anxiety disorders. For example, people often...
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...Psychiatric Disorders, Diseases, and Drugs Psychiatric Disorders, Diseases, and Drugs Psychiatric disorders and diseases are those conditions defined by the presentation of abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior is often defined by the mental health profession as behavior which is unusual or atypical. In addition, the individual suffering from a psychiatric disease or disorder may have difficulty with perception of reality or the hindered ability to interpret reality which may cause significant personal distress, self defeating behavior or otherwise dangerous behavior to oneself or others. Often times these behaviors are also socially unacceptable to ones specific culture (Nevid & Rathus, 2005). Schizophrenia is one of the most complex psychiatric diseases of all time. The disease name means “the splitting of psychic functions” (Pinel, 2007, p.481). The individual diagnosed with schizophrenia will commonly present symptoms which include bizarre delusions, inappropriate affect, hallucinations, incoherent thoughts and odd behavior with these symptoms varying in severity (Pinel, 2007). Various theories on schizophrenia have come to fruition over time. It is the belief of some researchers that schizophrenia has a genetic predisposition and that combined with experiences involving immense trauma or stress the disease can be triggered for development. In addition, those individuals with a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia who suffer hindered neurodevelopment at...
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...Anxiety Disorders While there are millions of individuals who struggle with the symptoms of anxiety on a daily basis, most people do not understand what having an anxiety disorder entails. According to Wood, Wood and Boyd, anxiety disorders are “psychological disorders characterized by frequent fearful thoughts about what might happen in the future” (Wood 459). In other words, anxiety is the constant or intense state of irrational fear that interferes with day-to-day activities. Anxiety disorders are common in both children and adults, the effects are numerous and the treatments are vast and ever-changing. Although there are many types of anxiety disorders, each having its own symptoms, treatments and effects, three that are common are panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Panic disorder is a term in which an anxiety disorder can be repeated or have unexpected attacks of intense fear. These attacks can last for minutes to hours. Panic attacks cannot be predicted and may result in added anxiety and depression. Over time, people who have panic attacks often worry about the onset of the next panic attack. Shirley Trickett, author of Panic Attacks, reports that symptoms of Panic Disorder include shortness of breath, pounding heart or chest pain, intense fear, sweating, dizziness, chills, tingling, numbness of the fingers and also a fear that the person are losing control or are about to die (5). Most panic attacks can happen...
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...all the peers you see every day. You are nervous and you have quite a bit of stress leading up to presentation. After the presentation is over, you feel the stress start to fade away. For three percent of population this stress doesn’t go away and what made the stress isn’t even brought on by a specific event. Over time anxiety can cause things like chest pains or nightmares, sometimes anxiety is so severe that it causes a child to be anxious about everyday things like going to school or even hanging out with friends and possibly spending the night. The unknown becomes more and more scary to the child and they worry more and more about something that does not need to be worried about so much....
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS AND DISEASES BY: Vivian Alfonso PSY/240 Professor: Desra Hohlbein February 20, 2015 Abstract The biopsychology of Psychiatric disorders (disorders of psychological function sufficiently severe to require treatment). One of the main difficulties in studying or treating the psychiatric disorders is that they are difficult to diagnose. Because they cannot identify the specific brain pathology associated with various disorders, their diagnosis usually rests entirely on the patients symptoms. The diagnosis is guided by the DSM-IV-TR (the current edition of the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Associations. I will be discussing the following psychiatric disorders Schizophrenia, Anxiety Disorders, Affective (emotional) disorders, Anxiety Disorders and Tourette syndrome. These disorders are all very important and are treatable. Most people can live happy and healthy lives if treatments are followed by a doctor. The major difficulty in studying and treating schizophrenia is accurately defining it (Heinrichs, 2005; Kreuger & Markon, 2006). Its symptoms are complex and diverse; they overlap greatly with those of other psychiatric disorders and frequently change during the progression of the disorder. Also, various neurological disorders have complex partial epilepsy; have symptoms that might suggest a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In recognition of the fact that the current definition of schizophrenia likely...
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...Anxiety & Depression Abstract : Anxiety and depression are a present part of life for almost all human beings in this world. This is an illness and not a disease. This illness has incurred due to various factors in present day world which has grown to be challenging, selfish and non caring. This study investigates the various contributing factors of anxiety and depression and theories supporting them which in terms have assisted to address all relevant resolution to manage anxiety and depression in all spheres of society including workplaces. The main focus is on the workplace management of anxiety and depression as the economic dependency based on workplace is the primary key indicator to trigger off the psychological imbalance within human beings. This article elaborates the remedial procedures and responsibilities for both the employees and employer to participate in harmony to overcome the components and mange those which give rise to anxiety and depression. The approach if being managed professionally will arrest the negative mental health of the employees which will add up to incremental productivity which will eliminate cost and bear revenue generations for the organisations. Introduction : Sociological, economical, political and environmental aspects have given to increase trends in anxiety and depression across all sects of human beings across the world. This is leading to the withdrawal symptoms of employees resulting to absenteeism, error in work, low productivity...
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...with both social anxiety disorder and general anxiety disorder. A social anxiety disorder is when you have a fear or phobia of being watched, judged, or criticized by people around them. General anxiety disorder is much more than just a “normal” anxiety disorder that people experience day to day, it is extensive and over exaggerated...
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...Anxiety, Mood/Affective, Dissociative/Somatoform Matrix | Anxiety Disorders | Mood and Affective Disorders | Dissociative Disorders | Somatoform Disorders | Description of Categories | Agoraphobia without a history of Panic Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder caused by general medical condition, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Anxiety Generalized, Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Social Phobias, Specific Phobias, Anxiety, Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder, (BehaveNet clinical capsule, 1996-2010) | Major Depressive Episode, Dysthymic Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder (Recurrent &Single Episode), Depressive Disorder (NOS),Hypo manic Episode, Mixed Episode, Manic Episode, Bipolar Disorder & Bipolar II Disorder, Mood Disorder (NOS)Substance-Induced Mood Disorder | Dissociative Identity Disorder, Depersonalization Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue | Conversion Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Somatization Disorder, PainDisorder,Somatoform Disorder (NOS),Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder | Specific Disorder | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Cyclothymic Disorder | Depersonalization Disorder | Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Symptoms | Feeling hyped up and or on edge, restlessness, being easily worn out or tired, difficulty concentrating, staying on task or mind going blank, tense muscles, being irritable, problems falling...
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...Anxiety, Mood/Affective, Dissociative/Somatoform Matrix | Anxiety Disorders | Mood and Affective Disorders | Dissociative Disorders | Somatoform Disorders | Description of Categories | Agoraphobia without a history of Panic Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder caused by general medical condition, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Anxiety Generalized, Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Social Phobias, Specific Phobias, Anxiety, Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder, (BehaveNet clinical capsule, 1996-2010) | Major Depressive Episode, Dysthymic Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder (Recurrent &Single Episode), Depressive Disorder (NOS),Hypo manic Episode, Mixed Episode, Manic Episode, Bipolar Disorder & Bipolar II Disorder, Mood Disorder (NOS)Substance-Induced Mood Disorder | Dissociative Identity Disorder, Depersonalization Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue | Conversion Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Somatization Disorder, PainDisorder,Somatoform Disorder (NOS),Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder | Specific Disorder | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Cyclothymic Disorder | Depersonalization Disorder | Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Symptoms | Feeling hyped up and or on edge, restlessness, being easily worn out or tired, difficulty concentrating, staying on task or mind going blank, tense muscles, being irritable, problems falling asleep...
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...MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS PSY/410 MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS There are a variety of mood and anxiety disorders associated with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV-TR), including: anxiety, mood/affective and dissosociative/somatoform disorders. Furthermore, there are several sub-categories that fall under different mood and anxiety disorders. These include phobias, depression and post-traumatic stress. Each can have their respective type of affect on a person with varying degrees of severity (Benjamin, 2006). According to Hansell & Damour (2008), the common belief is that fear itself is a naturally-promoted human emotion that manufactures anxiety. In addition, anxiety is classified as an emotion filled with uncertainties. DSM IV-TR lists the various disorders and anxiety is one of the common symptoms of anxiety disorders. Anxiety Disorders There is one clear difference between anxiety and fear. Fear itself is associated with a specific stimulus. On the other hand, anxiety is about uncertainty in what the future has in store (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Anxiety overload can quickly produce General Anxiety Disorder, (GAD) and/or panic disorders, as well as social phobia (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Mood/Affective Disorders Personality and moods in most people vary every day, some moderate while others can be more severe. Experiencing feelings of anxiety and fear are normal also, and the level of fear and anxiety can vary. According...
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